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Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry
Africa Spectrum, volume 57, issue 3 (2022), pp. 264-281
"The call to decolonize African Studies has a profound influence on the field, with varying degrees of success. This article addresses this topic in relation to the author’s personal experiences in the publishing industry in Namibia. By describing the attempt to publish a historical book about Nam
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Taking form, making worlds: Cartonera publishers in Latin America
Austin: University of Texas Press (2022), xvi, 303 pp.
"A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged
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Endlich genug von Hitler oder bitte noch mehr? Verlage als vergangenheitspolitische Akteur
In: Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: Ein Kompendium
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021), pp. 489-505
"This report highlights publishers’ activities and progress that relate to each of the 17 SDG goals. In some cases, these activities are core to what publishers do best, for example ensuring quality education. For other goals, such as clean water, the activities may be more indirect, and this repo
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Inside Book Publishing
Key Guides
London; New York: Routledge, 6th ed. (2020), xxi, 396 pp.
"Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition, Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry. Giles Clark and Angus Phillips offer authoritative coverage of all sectors of the industry, from commercial fiction and non-fiction to educational publishing and
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Growing the local book industry: The experience of a publishing collaborative in Rwanda
Save the Children (2020), 2 pp.
"In Rwanda, Save the Children collaborated with education ministries, publishing industry stakeholders, schools, book sellers and libraries in order to strengthen existing systems and increase output and availability of quality local language children’s books. This ‘whole chain’ approach addre
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Indigenous Publishing in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Chronology and Some Landmarks
African Research & Documentation, issue 136 (2019), pp. 36-61
"This chronological timeline sets out some of the key dates, events, and landmarks in the development of indigenous publishing in Sub-Saharan Africa. It also includes details of the major conferences, meetings or seminars on African publishing, held in Africa or at venues elsewhere, since 1968. An e
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Publishing in Africa: Where Are We Now? An Update for 2019
Zell Publishing Consultants (2019), 50 pp.
"This article is a sequel, and update, to a two-part article published in Logos. Journal of the World Publishing Community in 2008/09, which analysed the state of the book industries in sub-Saharan Africa thirty-five years after the major conference on ‘Publishing & Book Development in Africa’ t
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Wie ein Buch entsteht: Einführung in den Buchverlag
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg), 10., völlig überarb. Aufl. (2019), 239 pp.
"Dieses Standardwerk zur Entstehung eines Buchs hat Tausenden von Berufsanfängern und Interessierten als detaillierte und fundierte Einführung in die Verlagsarbeit gedient. Die vorliegende zehnte Auflage knüpft an die bewährte praxisorientierte Übersicht über alle Arbeitsbereiche eines Buchver
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2018
Zell Publishing Consultants (2019), 80 pp.
"This is the fourth in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and the book sector in sub-Saharan Africa [...] Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course
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Les éditeurs d’Afrique francophone sur l’échiquier du «glocal» (1980-2019)
Mémoires du livre = Studies in Book Culture, volume 10, issue 2 (2019), 29 pp.
"En étudiant les discours sur le livre africain, discours d’éditeurs africains et évolution du marché international du livre africain francophone depuis les années 1980, cette réflexion se propose d’interroger la relation entre l’industrie du livre en Afrique et le phénomène de mondial
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Manual de edición: Guía para estos tiempos revueltos
Key Guides
Arequipa (PE): La Travesía; Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 203 pp.
"Este Manual de edición busca guiar a todos los interesados a lo largo del proceso que conduce a la publicación de un libro tanto impreso como digital, desde el momento de su concepción hasta su venta. Manuel Gil y Martín Gómez analizan las similitudes y diferencias entre las cadenas de valor a
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2017
Zell Publishing Consultants (2018), 77 pp.
"The third in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and the book sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2017, a tot
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Lectores, editores y cultura impresa en Colombia, siglos XVI-XXI
Bogotá: Editorial Utadeo; Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 496 pp.
"Las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen buscan dar un paso en el esfuerzo por exami-nar las condiciones y problemas que han rodeado y rodean la producción, circulación y usos del libro en un país poco conocedor de su historia libresca y editorial. Los textos reconstruyen diversos momentos en
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2016
Zell Publishing Consultants (2017), 74 pp.
"This is the second in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and book development in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2
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